"Isso é bom"

Heyo!

So this week was a good one and full of gratitude! Sister Gilbert and I started gratitude journals so every day we write in our journal something we are grateful for or one way we saw the Lord's hand in our day. I have realized that as we receive everything with gratitude we are so much happier. We are always talking about the small things that we are going to put in our gratitude journal and it changes our whole day. The elders in our district meeting talked about how after anything bad happens or something doesn't go the way that they wanted they would just say, "Isso é bom", which is "this is good." Just because they know that after anything bad happens something good will happen. And so this week we have been saying, "Isso é bom." So even though we haven't been able to really find anyone to teach we have still been happy and we have had a lot of "isso é bom" moments!:)

We had interviews with President this week and it was awesome to be able to ask him for advice and help. 

 

Also... our little friends returned... this week Sister Gilbert got lice!! Isso é bom! Haha! So we had to spend one day brushing all of the lice out of her hair and washing all of our clothes and sheets. What can we say? Bugs love us! Hopefully I didn't get it, but we are with each other 24/7 so don't be surprised if next weeks email talks about getting lice out of my hair.... again... haha.

So with the goal of getting 40 baptisms this transfer as a mission, last week we were at 18 baptisms with 34 people with a baptismal date! So we are doing awesome:)

Conference! We got to watch the morning Saturday session with our branch in the chapel, but Marlino let Sister Gilbert and I watch it in the office in English. Then we got to watch the Sunday morning session in the chapel with the branch, but it was in Portuguese... So I am excited to listen to them during the week cuz sister Gilbert downloaded them all.  We weren't allowed to watch the second session cuz it started at 9 here,  that is too late for us sister missionaries to be out:) This morning I was able to hear Elder Hollands talk. I loved it about having sunshine in our soul.  It isn't always easy, but we always have the Savior on our side.

Anyways, It was a great week! Sister Gilbert and I knocked a ton of doors and called everyone in the area book and we are just still loving it here in Viana and we are praying that we will find someone that will want to progress.  This is the Lord's work and everything will happen according to His will. I love being a missionary and I am so grateful for my opportunity to be serving the Lord in this way!

Have a great week!!

Com amor,

Sister Sampson:)